Re: min, max, and ANSI

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From: carleton walker `93
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 20:04

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In article <1992Apr9.165859.18578@wam.umd.edu> krc@wam.umd.edu (Kevin R. Coombes) writes:
>I have a question about the ANSI C header stdlib.h. A certain compiler that
>shall for the moment remain nameless includes macros for min(a,b) and 
>max(a,b) in <stdlib.h>. Consequently, I managed to lose several hours
>trying to find out why a working program suddenly broke---eventually
>discovering, of course, that I had been using min as the name of a variable,
>and had changed things hwen I #included <stdlib.h> for unrelated reasons.
>Are min and max SUPPOSED to be in stdlib.h, and have I been just lucky
>in avoiding this problem in the past?

	I've always used the MIN and MAX in <mp.h>. I took a peak in
<stdlib.h> and couldn't find a MIN or MAX function. Do you include
<mp.h>?


Carl Walker

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